Portara vs. Jobber
Jobber is built to dispatch service calls.Portara is built to manage changing jobs.
How Jobber compares
| Feature | Jobber | Portara |
|---|---|---|
Send quotes or estimates | Yes | Yes |
Collect approvals and deposits | Yes | Yes |
Send invoices and take online payments | Yes | Yes |
Set up progress invoices and payment schedules Plan requirements may apply. | Yes | Yes |
Keep customer and job records | Yes | Yes |
Add products, services, and labor to a job | Yes | Yes |
Schedule employees and check for conflicts | Yes | Yes |
Track employee time by job | Yes | Yes |
Approve timesheets for payroll | Yes | Yes |
Track job expenses and profitability | Yes | Yes |
Keep notes, photos, videos, and files with the work | Yes | Yes |
Scan supplier documents and attach the expense to a job Plan requirements may apply. | Yes | Yes |
Pay one price for your whole team Portara Teams is $1,020 a year with unlimited users. | No | Yes |
Get every feature on the team plan without upgrading Jobber puts many features on Grow and Plus. Plus renews at $4,788 a year for five users after the current promotion. | No | Yes |
Built for organizers, stagers, designers, planners, stylists, caterers, and other non-trade service businesses | No | Yes |
Let employees submit the days and times they are available | No | Yes |
Send work offers that employees can accept or decline | No | Yes |
Send the crew an automatic briefing with the latest job details | No | Yes |
See how much of every item on the job has been invoiced | No | Yes |
Easily see what remains to be invoiced after the job changes | No | Yes |
Show all job invoices, payments, refunds, and the remaining balance together | No | Yes |
Include the complete running job balance on every invoice | No | Yes |
Make a purchasing list from the products required by the job | No | Yes |
Subtract stock on hand from what the job requires | No | Yes |
Track stock across storage, jobs, pickups, and returns | No | Yes |
Scan a receipt and assign individual line items to the job | No | Yes |
Portara is a standalone product for running jobs, employees, purchasing, inventory, billing, and payments. Jobber features depend on the plan you use.
Run the whole job in one place.
Keep changing scope, crew, purchasing, stock, invoices, payments, notes, and time together.
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